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From what I remember from the FS ad the paint looked like it was in great shape for its age ( I could be wrong). If the paint is still in good shape I would just do a wash, clay, polish, and wax. I'm sure you'll be very happy with the reults and it would cost considerably less than a repsray.

Yeah, the pic in the add was taken just after he polished it, a year back. The hood has a few noticeable rock chips that turned to cancer over the years, and someone keyd the car on the passenger door. He put some nail polish paint stuff in but still you can see it, it was deep. The 2 front 1/4 have paint peeling around the well and about a foot up from the rockers the rust starts to come through down to the rocker ( just surface, looks like paint was ubber thin, but again, for original paint it's good. And one side of the car is faded pink! (that's an easy fix, but I'd have to keep at it all the time)

If it's single stage red (like zinnoberrot) you're better keeping it original, since the cost of a repaint won't be any different (maybe even cheaper) than flat or satin, and you won't have to either paint the red bits that aren't exposed, or explain why parts are still red.